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From: toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: _MOTIF_WM_HINTS question
Message-ID: <1989Dec28.145642.10297@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 89 14:56:42 GMT
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I got zero, nada, none, zip, no responses to this note that I posted
last week, other than the one saying that they would forward it to some OSF
mailing list.  So I'll try again.  Any OSF people out there listening?


I have a couple of questions about the Motif _MOTIF_WM_HINTS property.

1.  The definition of the property in the MWM programmers guide is 
    different from the definition in MwmUtil.h.  I assume the header
    file contains the proper definition:

    typedef struct
    {
	CARD32      flags;
	CARD32      functions;
	CARD32      decorations;
	INT32       inputMode;
    } PropMotifWmHints;

    Is my assumption correct?  Are there any other differences between the
    documentation and the code that I should be aware of?  I can't UTSL,
    all I have are binaries and header files.

2.  I only see this property set on transient windows and it never seems
    to make any sense.  Often times it appears that I am just getting
    uninitialized memory.  I have never seen decorations or functions
    specified, yet the decorations that mwm places on transients is
    different than what is used on normal windows.  Does mwm use this
    property to determine what decoration to place on windows or am I
    seeing a default transient decoration?

3.  It might be nice if this property were placed on all windows that
    are created by the motif toolkit, not just windows that require
    different decorations.  That way, a configurable window manager
    could provide mwm decoration on motif clients or Open Look decoration
    on Open Look clients.  Current Open Look clients, at least those
    built with xview or OI, place an _OL_WIN_ATTR property on all
    reparentable windows.  This property is similar to _MOTIF_WM_HINTS.


Thanks,
Tom LaStrange

Solbourne Computer Inc.    ARPA: toml@Solbourne.COM
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